UPDATE: This event has now passed but you can watch all the sessions on-demand now by following this link. The second annual Fast Data Strategy Virtual Conference is just around the corner: Wednesday, March 29th in the Americas and Thursday,…

UPDATE: This event has now passed but you can watch all the sessions on-demand now by following this link. Last year we held the world’s first conference on fast data strategy, and it was an outstanding success. We presented over…

What is data virtualization? Here’s an analogy using a concept that we can all relate to: a supermarket. Picture the scene: Shopping list in one hand, shopping basket in the other, you’re ready to tackle your weekly shopping in your…

Challenges to Enterprise-wide Adoption of Big Data Technologies Lack of comprehensive strategic planning is proving to be the greatest impediment to enterprise-wide adoption of big data technologies. While organizations are quick to invest in new technologies like Hadoop cluster and…

What is OData? The Open Data Protocol (OData), currently in version 4, is an open data exchange protocol maintained by the OASIS Consortium as a standard. Originally proposed by Microsoft in 2009 (and maintained by them until version 3), it…

How many users, inside and outside your organization, access your organization’s data? Dozens? More likely you have a hundred or more, each with his or her own structure and content requirements. Moreover, users probably have different rights, in terms of…

“A company that ceases to grow will die;” a useful albeit slightly morbid mantra for any business trying to make it out there in the big wide world. How can business avoid such an outcome? One answer is by staying…

We hear a lot about data ‘in the cloud’, and if you’re working in a regulated environment like biotech/pharma, the idea of your data floating around in the ether may have you a little freaked out. But, whether your data…

Typical estimates for the development of a new small molecule drug are that it involves preparation and testing of more than a thousand candidate molecules and results in a New Drug Application of over 100,000 pages. The data supporting such…

There are a number of terms that have been coined to describe the process of collecting and compiling data—data integration, data federation, data virtualization….the list goes on. To an extent, the confusion across these terms is understandable as they all…